Improvement in ice-creepers



E. F. DIETERICHS.

Ice-Creepers.

Patntd June 25,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL F. DIETERIGHS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ICE-'CREEPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,370, dated June 25, 1872; antedated June 15, 1872.-

, SPECIFICATION. I, EMIL FRANK D'IETERIcHs, of Philadelphia,

A county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,

have invented an Improved Creeper, of which the following is a specification:

Improved Creeper.

Nature and Object of the Invention.

My invention consists of a creeper, constructed in the peculiar manner fully described hereafter, with a view to efficiency as regards the prevention of slipping on the ice, and economy as regards construction.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the steel plate preparatory to being bent and attached to a strap for forming the creeper; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the bent plate attached to the strap; Fig. 3, a view showing the creeper applied to the foot.

General Description. A plate, A, is cut or punched out to the form As a new article of manufacture, a creeper,

' consisting of a steel plate serrated at the edge,

and the serrated portion bent, as described, and a continuous strap extending across and secured to the plate, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

E. F. DIETERIGHS. Witnesses:

WM. A. STEEL, HARRY SMITH. 

